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Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to episode 335 of connecting with Walt. I am your host and is historian Michael

Bowling and I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Tom Bell. Tom, how are you today?

I am well, Michael, yourself. I'm doing well. I have not recovered yet from the 70th, have not

fully unpacked. Yeah, I was going to say I haven not recovered yet from the 70th. I've not fully unpacked.

Yeah, I was going to say, I haven't unpacked either. So I just took out the essentials.

Yes, yes. And that was it. The charging cables. And yeah, that's about it. Yeah. So I'll get to that.

I'll get to that soon. Yeah. So speaking of that, on July 17th, 2025, Disneyland celebrated its 70th anniversary

and Mary Jo and I were there. Tom came a little later on after that. And Mary Jo is

here to talk about our experiences.

So Mary Jo, welcome back to connecting with Walt.

Thank you for having you back.

Hi, guys.

Or hi, friends, rather.

So we're going to talk about sort of the week because we all did different things during the week.

I did a few things beforehand. We did things afterwards and stuff like that.

So before the anniversary began, I went to the Hilbert Museum of California Art to see their free exhibition, banking on a dream, Bank of America, the Disney movies,

and the birth of Disneyland.

So Mary Jo, have you had an opportunity yet to go to this?

I haven't, but just hearing you talk about it, I'm really thinking about going over there to check it out.

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